The IT industry has come together to make data centers more energy efficient.

Leading computer hardware and software giants have created a consortium called the Green Grid to address their power problem. A recent report revealed that data centers, the backbone of the IT industry, are huge energy suckers. The consortium intends to look at this pressing issue and find ways to solve it.

Their mission statement calls for:

Defining meaningful, user-centric models and metrics; Developing standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve performance against the defined metrics; Promoting the adoption of energy efficient standards, processes, measurements and technologies.

The Green Grid's Board of Directors includes AMD, APC, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Rackable Systems, SprayCool, Sun Microsystems, and VMware. The consortium has also released three white papers on the topic, available at TheGreengrid.org.

While there is pending legislation in Washington regarding data center energy use, the technology industry is not waiting for mandatory rules to come into effect and are finding ways to self-regulate a growing problem.

Via GreenBiz; The Green Grid